Kościół karmelitów pw. Wniebowzięcia NMP, Pilzno

Carmelite Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - church at the Carmelite monastery in Pilsen, built in the first half of the 15th century for the Augustinians.

The Augustinian monastery and church were founded by King Władysław Jagiełło in Plzeň in 1403. The Gothic church underwent numerous reconstructions and was destroyed by town fires in 1811 and 1865. A year later, a low tower covered with a pyramidal cupola was added to the nave of the church. In 1841 the Carmelites took over the monastery and church from the Augustinian order.

The church is an oriented, one-nave, brick temple with a closed three-sided chancel and a pair of side chapels. A sacristy adjoins the presbytery from the north. Above the portal leading to it there is a stucco cartouche with the coat of arms of the Carmelite Order. Numerous reconstructions gave the Gothic building Neo-Romanesque features with Neo-Renaissance elements. The buttress-supported façade with its Gothic triangular gable and adjacent Gothic porch is decorated with a Neo-Romanesque arcade frieze and Neo-Renaissance oculus. The four-storey tower, built on a quadrilateral plan, in the upper part changing into an octagon, has Neo-Romanesque windows. Three bells are hung in it: two smaller Baroque ones and a bigger one, founded by the brothers from the monastery in 1930. The whole building is covered with a gable roof with a little tower.

The interior of the church is covered with cross vaults and covered with figural polychrome: in the nave and the presbytery painted in 1866, in the northern chapel in 1947, while in the southern chapel painted by Stanislaw Westwalewicz after 1950. In the late Renaissance main altar there is a carved crucifix and in front of it, as a veil, the image of Our Lady of the Scapular. On the sides of the altar there are sculptures of St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas, and in the coping there is an image of St. Catherine and St. Barbara. The side altars by the rood-screen are from the late Baroque period.

The south chapel contains a Baroque altar with a painting of St. Joseph. The late Renaissance altar of the northern chapel contains the locally revered image of Our Lady of Consolation, painted by a local artist in 1663. The cloths for the painting were designed by Jan Matejko in 1883. In 2007, Tarnów bishop Wiktor Skworc announced a decree officially confirming the sanctuary status of Our Lady of Consolation for the Carmelite church.

The 12-voice organ on the music choir was moved from the Carmelite Church on Piasek in Kraków.

Next to the church is a monastery, built in 1848. It is a classicist one-story building with a façade segmented by pilasters.